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Creating a realistic glow in front of objects

Creating a realistic glow in front of objects - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: Creating a Short Film: 10 VFX Effects

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Creating a realistic glow in front of objects

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- [Instructor] One of the giveaways of digital the brightness is going to appear to kind of Kind of create a glow, and that glow would go over these branches but in digital compositing those two things wouldn't interact because in the last tutorial by what we did, on the objects themselves because then you're Like the glow, for example, on top of everything, and that way you can get some of the fire over the Over on top of these shrubs for example. So again I'm going to right click over here, create a new adjustment layer. and I'm going to go ahead and search for the glow effect in the stylized category and apply that to this layer. And you can see here, I mean this looks... But as I play with this here, you can see that the effect is going over the trees, which is great. Now what you really want to to do is increase the radius. And you can see how, already... I mean this is, again, this is excessive. But just for demonstration purposes as I bring up glow radius you can see that…

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